The New Student's Reference Work/Champlain

Champlain (shăm-plān), a beautiful lake separating the states of New York and Vermont. It is 110 miles long and from one to 15 broad. It empties into the St. Lawrence through the Richelieu River, and a canal joins it to the Hudson. Here the Americans defeated the British in a naval battle in 1814. The lake is named from its discoverer, Samuel de Champlain.